To really learn how to paint light and color we must all learn to unsee the world as we knew it, to let go of old ways of thinking and embrace light for what it is
I think an important tip is to unsee bright colors, usually, when I started painting digitally I used very distinct and bright colors, but I have started to realize that starting with very desaturated colors and then working towards bright colors really makes the art pop.
YES! I have found the same thing. There is magic in the desaturated colors. I have a whole video planned on the topic for sure. Glad to know you have found the same revelation :)
Jeremy, this kind of content is gold. It's very articulate and beautifully concise. In my opinion, to have the discipline as you go forward to keep presenting this kind of elemental thinking divorced from content about how to use 'the tools' is really important - learning how to think is more valuable than learning how to do. Once you understand the problem, and know how to think about it, building your own experiences, using creative problem solving and lateral thinking can get you over the 'how do I achieve this' line. How to do, then, can look like all manner of things. I don't do this kind of art, but I use exactly this kind of thinking in my approach to graphic design and communication. Look forward to hearing more from you…
Hey Mark! It's so nice to hear from you after all these years after meeting in Egypt way back 20 years ago. Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you liked the video and the ideas in it :)
I can't think of a better way to say this. I only started doing art about 6 years ago (48 yo now), and one of things I eventually picked up on was the necessity to see things differently. It is so, so, so important...at least for realism. Well said!
Please make more videos. Your clarity expertise , articulation and visually explaining light in art is simple and understandable. You make learning art less intimidating.
This!! Another noticeable difference that I’ve found are that these are the only “art tutorial videos” (and I’ve watched A TON) is that I don’t get stressed and can actually enjoy the entire video, likely because it’s so fascinating and you’re basically telling us to get out of our heads anyways! Also creates excitement around getting creative, which can sometimes get lost-for me at least. I feel like I’m doing something illegal by watching these for free, hahaha.
@@Hmy8799 one time I've been so focused on the thing I was working on that I didn't realize that I was already 6 hour in without going to the bathroom or drinking anything. It was my first and only time though.
For the past two years, my art has hit a block. I'm not god-tier by any means, so I knew there were things I could improve, but nothing I tried produced tangible results. This age's accessibility of teaching resources makes self-learning easier than ever and yet paradoxically harder *because* it's so easy. One keyword pulls up ten thousand results, and while more than half may have merit to varying degrees, most only show the creator's process of using their tools and workflows. Two years I spent watching tutorials on "best way to do this artistic thing" when what I really needed was "how to understand WHY we do this artistic thing". That is exactly what your videos offer. I have learned more from watching a scant three of your videos than I have in years of searching for answers. Your video on color relativity blew my mind and I immediately understood why my landscapes feel flat - I would see those purple and green hues faded by the atmosphere and literally paint with desaturated purple and greens. OF COURSE it looked wrong and now I know WHY! It's beyond inspiring to feel this renewed creative liberty. Last night, I did a number of color studies that were massively better than anything I've produced before, and now after watching this video, I'm itching to do light studies and endeavor to unsee the details! :3 The words feel too simple, but there's nothing more honest I can say than this. THANK YOU. Thank you for making these videos and answering the why's and not just the how's. Your content is literally the embodiment of the "teach a man to fish" proverb because you've made a lasting difference in how I see the world artistically instead of just feeding me on how to use a tool. Thank you so much and never stop painting or teaching, because you truly have a gift.
In general I hate wearing glasses and use contacts, but sometimes I enjoy wearing my glasses when I go out or am looking to see differently for a bit, because I can take them off and I naturally see everything with that blur filter :) get rid of the details in the world and just see blobs of moving color (I have very bad vision lol). I find it pretty relaxing and magical, especially around Christmas time with all the string lights and decorations ✨
Yes!! I totally agree! There are silver linings to having vision issues like this for sure. Interestingly enough many of my favorite Art Directors I've worked with through the years have lazy eyes or super thick glasses. Makes me wonder if they are able to see the world as 2d easier than with perfect vision and that gives them an advantage in creating art
I absolutely adore getting my vision checked around the holidays. The drops they put in to widen the pupils cause these gorgeous star shapes around all the street lamps and stoplights. :) I agree entirely that taking off my glasses will give me an entirely different view of the world, in just a moment. It’s magic! :)
Thanks, I needed to read this. That's the most positive thing I've ever heard in regards to having to have my newly acquired glasses. It was also like a penny drop moment, you are so right. What I had thought was incredible artistic instinct in some of my creative friends may well boil down to their very thick glasses & their ability to see the world in this fuzzy, diffused way. Amazing.
@@randomdm I'm sure it's a bit of both. Kids with poor vision/glasses are probably less comfortable running around outside all the time and therefore develop more indoor hobbies like reading/art/music. Or whatever a persons reasoning is for the behavior preferences they have. And the more time you spend indoors looking at close objects, the worse your vision will likely get (also genetics). I don't know if it's necessarily that we see in a way others don't, but that we've spent more conscious energy in the process of seeing and developing our other senses. So it's reciprocal, like most things. Near sightedness might have lead us to more near sighted skills, and then spending so much time doing those things made our nearsightedness worse. People on average have significantly worse vision today because of all our screens and nearsighted jobs.
I have been painting for many years and have had many workshop and class teachers. Your approach to creating images using light (as opposed to form) as the primary principle is extremely useful and unique in my experience. I have always taught my own students that painting is first and foremost about seeing, and that you need to paint what you see, not what you think. After a certain point you will have learned enough to make aesthetic decisions that deviate from that rule, but only when you have understood why you are doing it. Your videos are pure gold.
I appreciate the filming setup with the dramatic, high contrast lighting! I was trying to analyze your face and the room using your tips while watching the video
Yay! An artist after my own heart... studying every image. I am constantly stopping movies to admire the light and color. So glad you're applying your art observation skills
Same! I knew someone else must have thought this too. I never see other CZcams videos with this type of lighting. It was perfect for the subject of the video and just a delight to watch.
I don't think I could stress enough how much these lessons have taught me. As someone who is always trying to develop their skills, it's tough to find your kind of in-depth guidance.
I love how you verbalize it so well! It's something that I also had an "aha" moment with years ago. When you look at a white wall it never really is white. There are multiple different shades, colors and values in there. It never occurred to me that this is also directly transferable to studying light and objects. I'll definitely try to unsee lines in my next work. Thanks so much!
I cannot express how THRILLED I am to have come across your channel!!! You’re (obviously) an incredible artist-but the way you teach is so different that anything I’ve personally come across, and your insights are invaluable in my opinion. You also make me excited to just DRAW! Being ADHD I can fall into the perfectionist trap, which can lead to frustration and multiple unfinished projects of all types-so this entire idea is REALLY awesome for me. I really can’t find the right words to express how helpful/inspiring/encouraging/creative-mind inducing that this video-along with your other videos-truly are…more so than any online courses or videos I’ve taken or watched! Thank you for offering us a little chunk of your magically genius brain!
Wow... I'm floored. What amazing feedback and kind words! Thank you! I'm delighted that you find my ponderings useful :) Keep creating! Comments like these are so highly motivating for me to keep making more. Thank you!!
Yo, i got ADD and feeling the same and also have a major problem with perfectionism so its really hard for me to get past the sketching fase because i hate doing the line art before coloring. These video's give me hope again for my future drawings on digital.
Ditto for me, what a find! You are doing the right thing, being a perfectionist. Not many people are willing to spend the time necessary to produce great work. I have many photographer friends who either don't post process at all or they do very little. But they have many thousands of pictures. I have far fewer but I feel it's better to have a gallery worthy pics even if I don't have all that many.
Thank you for your channel and topics. I am a painter not a graphic artist but the skills you teach cross genres and have given me new tools to level up in a way that standard painting tutorials never could!
jeremy, a month ago i watched your first video about colors and I challenged myself to do color studies for 30 days. i just finished it today and I just want to say, you helped me a lot through those 30 days more than the previous years I studied art in school. incredibly. you helped me get through my long year of art block. so thank you so much. I'm still slowly learning once more through your channel, this time I'll be challenging myself again in what you've taught in this video. so I just wanna reach out and say thank you so much. i cannot thank you enough. thank you, thank you.
Wow, that is so amazing! It's artists like yourself that are going to go far since you're putting in the work that is going to help you grow quickly!! It's so nice to meet you Ayna. Please do stay in touch as you keep at it. I have some new videos coming soon that will be the next steps to grow that I hope you find helpful. I also am going to start doing mentorships in 2023 if that's something you might be interested in.
As an art student who has prior knowledge of color and light, you really helped me get to know and familiarize myself into new concepts relating color and light, thank you very much.
I am at the half of the video and you told me perfectly what I'm feeling all the time when I'm struggling: it's the unseeing of details and the feeling and colours and light! Thank you! Such an important fact about painting.
I'm a professional artist, but I loved this video. Trying to "produce" art, we forget the fundamentals of seeing value and light. Thanks for the reminder. Just yesterday, I marveled at the light through a tangerine. I look forward to more of your content.
Been a painting of traditional paint (oil and gouache) and decided it's time to get into some digital art. You go over many things my teachers spoke of, but I find there aspects of these ideas that are slightly different than traditional painting. Most of all, it's the "how to see light" that's doing me the most good. Thank you.
Can't agree more. I learned this last year when I struggle to do linework and it was a paradigm shift for me. Try not to find an outline or a shortcut, but draw the thing as it is, as it is perceived in your eyes. If you want an outline, add it after the drawing is done.
WOW !!! You are totally ultimately enlightened from within ! Proof of it that you share your inner light with us ! Cheers m8 +++ May a light be with you forever !!!
Hey Jeremy I just found your videos man. These are an astounding resource. You are such a great teacher and you visuals used to teach a Lee so great. I am very very impressed. So how do you view directly light. Is that just part of the primary speciar
Thanks Joe! I'm so glad it was helpful. When I create the next few videos hopefully I answer your questions about how to see direct light. It takes practice for sure to get your brain to see each element separately.
I am an amateur nature photographer and I must say your videos are real gems to nature and wildlife photographers who are resisting the current obsession with details, sharpening, nailing the shot and noise-free images. Thanks to you, I am beginning to understand and admire the complexities of light and how that knowledge can help me work on my post processing and how to approach negative space. Thank you so much!
This one is encouraging too, the fact the you start out in large scale and then refine more and more is how I Photoshop images - I do global things first, then after a while I spend more time dealing with more and more specific areas. I take a lot of time making sure I have textures right (which could involve accentuating actual light to be brighter or less bright, more saturation or less or changing color, some is for sharpening or blurring, etc. But in the end I do what looks good to me. I have spent as much as 10 days on a single picture, but usually one to two days are the norm. The more important a picture is to me, the more time I'm willing to spend. My record holder is of a super gifted and very kind celebrity who passed away suddenly. Everybody has heard of this person. I'd rather not say who. Anyway, I've said enough. Thanks for this excellent video. I'm still learning!
I take pictures and I have always wondered why "photography" means "writing with light." I stumbled upon the works of an impressionist painter, Claude Monet, where he constantly paint similar subjects in different times of the day. I tried to do it as well but in photography. The more I practice it, the more I see how light hits the surfaces of the subjects, how light creates shadows behind a subject, how light makes the colors of subjects more vibrant, etc. You have explained this beautifully. I have watched a lot of art-related videos on CZcams and yours are one of the few ones that provide honest yet encouraging advice to people who want to try and excel in art. You earned a sub!!!
Your channel has been blowing my mind for the past 24 hours. I am looking at the world completely differently. I can't tell you how MUCH I appreciate you sharing what you know with us. So, a profound: thank you.
This is incredibly profound. This captures elegantly why art is so fundamental to our humanity. And it hints at the complicated math that exists behind some of the things we see in art but doesn't explicitly state it making it accessible. And I love the mindset change.
Everything you have said & done with this CZcams clip is masterful. Its mind boggling how much learning has been done in my yrs & although many teachers touch on light & colour blocking, I have never seen one break down the elements to an image quite like you have just done. Simple, thoughtful, provocative & eloquently delivered, highly valuable content. Many thanks Jeremy
@@LightingMentor it has been a struggle still after working as an Light apprentice on Encanto i am working on improving in a big way and go back to the basics to fully full understand... i think i still tend to see things as object.
just found your video while searching for paining tutorial. I have been struggling with light and colours. Your approach of unseeing shapes and seeing colour has blown my mind. Love from Bangladesh. I'll definitely follow your videos to learn more. Hope you keep creating videos every month. (though I know creating such videos needs so much preparations)
This is so cool Jeremy, it took me back when we worked together and your comments and advices were always super helpfull! Thank you for explaining the important things so simply!
I still think about the course you gave us about light 12 or 13 years ago. You still aaze me with the way you are able to catch, understand and reproduce the light and it's boucing in your drawings. This is a nice channel, I hope you'll get what you want from it ! Cheers from France ;-)
Your descriptions reminded me so much of JMW Turner paintings. He was the diffused and atmospheric light specialist! Would love to see you do a walk through on some of his work. Thanks!!
Had a weird moment this morning while driving to work... It was raining and cars were driving with their lights on. The reflections on the road were kind of bending toward me, not going straight down the road like I expected them to. Is it just me or has anyone else seen this? Perhaps I am just going mad! Your explanations of light and how it works are invaluable and I thought that if anyone would have seen this in life, you would!
I just found your channel and feel blessed already. Thank you for being willing to let others learn from your vast knowledge base and for explaining in a way that is so understandable and inspiring!
Just recently discovered your videos and my painting skills have already jumped leaps and bounds! Also, your favorite digital brushes are now my favorite, too. THANK YOU!! 🎨
Wow, thank you!!! That is a very high complement! I'm so glad you found these useful. I have so many more topics to share and am working on new videos. Sorry for the gaps in time, my day job keeps me incredibly busy and I've been away for the past 5 weeks shooting a tv show. Now that I'm home I hope I can make a schedule to get videos out more regularly. Thanks again for the very kind words and encouragement
Sometimes I feel lucky to see this type of gem content which is not viewed by large number of people, but at the same time I feel like it should have even more audience. But the fact is this type of gem content is a reward who was searching for it.
Hello Jeremy. It's me Jeremy too. Lol I'm in Alaska and you are right about light. We have so much light in the summer and then lots of grays and white in the winter. I have been photographing the same location for over a whole year and things change out there. The same spot can transform just like that. And the closer I get to the ground the more there is to see in a tiny spot of the forest. I am not very good at painting yet but I do have many mediums that I have yet to work with intentionally. I love your channel. NOONE has spoken as you have in such a simple explanation of lighting. I can't wait to look at your portfolio
I'm so glad that your channel exists, thanks a lot for giving us free high quality courses like this. I was struggling a lot figure out how to use color palette in my illustrations, even the simplest one, it's either too bland or too strong. I watched some of videos from other people but it doesn't really help a lot. it's probably because the explanation is too complex or too general (not going in depth) for me. But, your videos are on another level. It's so easy to understand and apply. I only watched 2 videos of yours and finally can solve my problem handling color palette. Thanks a lot :)
Now, I know the reason why I stopped painting. I never learnt to draw with lines and shapes. I started painting because I loved colors and I loved the fact that many colors which are not visible to the naked eye contributes in making a picture or a scenery beautiful. In the last few years, I was trying to do art like everyone else, using lines and shapes, although they are useful, that's not my style of art. I was lost for so long trying to figure out what's stopping me from my painting. This is just one of the reasons though. I feel like I am in an art class when I watch your videos. Thank you so much, I learnt a lot from your videos.
Thank you so much for making this video. I am legally blind. I have been an artist all my life and I started losing my eyesight 10 years ago. My mom told me to keep creating art no matter what. So I pressed on . For years I was a black and white pencil artist. I focused a lot on line work and shading but now I can't really see the lines. I see color and not details. The way I see is like a flat water color painting with very little lines. I just started working with clay and painting on my clay pots but lately I have not been very happy with my paintings. It's like every day is a constant reminder that I can't see. I was really down until I started looking at your videos. I realized that I can still see colors. After listening to you I learned that I should focus on colors first then add in some details last. 😂 This is a total shift in my thinking. It is hard for me to let go of lines because that has been my focus all my life but I am going to go back to the basics and build my way back up. Just like you showed me. I am so happy right now and I can't wait to get started with my paintings. Thank you so much for this. You made me love art again.
It seems so obvious that light is what we take in, but the way you described the transistion from looking at purely the details to temporarily shutting that out and focusing on the way the light reveals the detail through colour is simply beautiful. Love this video, Jeremy! I'm so glad I found your channel, you're awesome!
Being aware..is the reason we are born ....very simple ..only that. Everything alive has degree of consciousness and the difference is only that degree. This is one of the best lesson on art I ever heard ...but at same time talks about the degree of consciousness of the author ...old the best Jeremy.
There is a story I‘ve read about Leonardo DaVinci that sticked to me: He started every painting by kneeing in front of it. Making him smaller. This metapher is resonating by your idea of unseeing what we have learned. Thank you!
Thank you so so much for this I recently found your channel and your explanations and the way you see things are constant light bulb moments. Thank you 🙏🏼
your channel has absolutely changed the way i approach my practice and my art - thank you so much for uploading, I keep returning to your videos over and over and it feels like everytime I learn something new :)
I'm absolutely loving these videos. I've been looking for an explanation for how those beautiful lighting effects can be visualised in a painting and finally found it in your videos! I'm going to share this with people whom I know will appreciate these as much as I do. Thanks Jeremy!
Oh my gosh! I am loving your videos! You are doing such a good job. For the last 2 years I homeschooled my daughter and one of our favorite studies was Pixar in a Box on Kahn Academy. These videos are the next level of creative learning! I am so excited to share them with her. Please keep them coming!!!!
I came back 5 minutes after watching the video just to hit a like and to thank you for the quality of your videos... It's great work you're doing here... Learned a lot of things from you 🙏🙏🙏
I've watched a couple of your videos now, and I gotta say... even as a novice, I can tell how valuable the topics you touch on are, and am awed by your ability to make them not only understandable but also immediately practicable - I'll definitely keep my eyes out for more of these videos!
I recently find your channel and I've seen all your videos, pretty sure I just find a gold mine here... Thanks man, I really appreciate your content, please keep teaching us
Love your videos. I've been needing something like this. I've recently started learning color and been finding it very frustrating. After watching your videos I decided to paint just a simple apple and it turned out so good and I learned so much! Now I'm doing simple paint sketches and I feel I'm actually starting to understand what I'm doing. Just want to say thank you for being on here and sharing your wisdom. I've found it super helpful.
Wow. Just. Wow. I thought I knew these things but now I get it. Thank you for explaining them in a way I can understand. I’m looking forward to more videos.
Hello! I really enjoyed and learned a lot from you videos, so I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to make them! They truly are inspiring, enough for me ( a stubborn lil teen) to start digital painting! So from the bottom of my heart, thanks.
Thank You soo much for making and sharing Your excellent videos. It's channels like Your's , where knowledgeable people generously spend their time and effort to share their knowledge that give CZcams it's value. Best regards.
Wow ! Thank you I just Subscribed! As an illustrator I have always been in awe of animation and the ability of the animators who can create other worldly images that are so convincing and far beyond what we see in life. Truly amazing abilities and talent! 🇨🇦
I think an important tip is to unsee bright colors, usually, when I started painting digitally I used very distinct and bright colors, but I have started to realize that starting with very desaturated colors and then working towards bright colors really makes the art pop.
YES! I have found the same thing. There is magic in the desaturated colors. I have a whole video planned on the topic for sure. Glad to know you have found the same revelation :)
Jeremy, this kind of content is gold. It's very articulate and beautifully concise. In my opinion, to have the discipline as you go forward to keep presenting this kind of elemental thinking divorced from content about how to use 'the tools' is really important - learning how to think is more valuable than learning how to do. Once you understand the problem, and know how to think about it, building your own experiences, using creative problem solving and lateral thinking can get you over the 'how do I achieve this' line. How to do, then, can look like all manner of things. I don't do this kind of art, but I use exactly this kind of thinking in my approach to graphic design and communication. Look forward to hearing more from you…
Hey Mark! It's so nice to hear from you after all these years after meeting in Egypt way back 20 years ago. Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you liked the video and the ideas in it :)
I can't think of a better way to say this. I only started doing art about 6 years ago (48 yo now), and one of things I eventually picked up on was the necessity to see things differently. It is so, so, so important...at least for realism. Well said!
Please don't stop teaching us! you are the only eye opener the best teacher!!!
Aw thank you! I will definitely keep making more videos. I'm so glad you find them helpful
Please make more videos. Your clarity expertise , articulation and visually explaining light in art is simple and understandable. You make learning art less intimidating.
This!! Another noticeable difference that I’ve found are that these are the only “art tutorial videos” (and I’ve watched A TON) is that I don’t get stressed and can actually enjoy the entire video, likely because it’s so fascinating and you’re basically telling us to get out of our heads anyways! Also creates excitement around getting creative, which can sometimes get lost-for me at least. I feel like I’m doing something illegal by watching these for free, hahaha.
I'm so glad you found this helpful!! Yes, art can be taught without it being overwhelming I believe. Keep creating!
@@Hmy8799 one time I've been so focused on the thing I was working on that I didn't realize that I was already 6 hour in without going to the bathroom or drinking anything. It was my first and only time though.
I think I have searching for a channel like this for a long time... And now I finally found it! Thank you, Jeremy!
Yay, so glad you found it helpful! I'm glad you found me here
For the past two years, my art has hit a block. I'm not god-tier by any means, so I knew there were things I could improve, but nothing I tried produced tangible results. This age's accessibility of teaching resources makes self-learning easier than ever and yet paradoxically harder *because* it's so easy. One keyword pulls up ten thousand results, and while more than half may have merit to varying degrees, most only show the creator's process of using their tools and workflows.
Two years I spent watching tutorials on "best way to do this artistic thing" when what I really needed was "how to understand WHY we do this artistic thing". That is exactly what your videos offer. I have learned more from watching a scant three of your videos than I have in years of searching for answers. Your video on color relativity blew my mind and I immediately understood why my landscapes feel flat - I would see those purple and green hues faded by the atmosphere and literally paint with desaturated purple and greens. OF COURSE it looked wrong and now I know WHY! It's beyond inspiring to feel this renewed creative liberty. Last night, I did a number of color studies that were massively better than anything I've produced before, and now after watching this video, I'm itching to do light studies and endeavor to unsee the details! :3
The words feel too simple, but there's nothing more honest I can say than this. THANK YOU. Thank you for making these videos and answering the why's and not just the how's. Your content is literally the embodiment of the "teach a man to fish" proverb because you've made a lasting difference in how I see the world artistically instead of just feeding me on how to use a tool. Thank you so much and never stop painting or teaching, because you truly have a gift.
Just posting my support. Great channel, and great vid.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you found this helpful
In general I hate wearing glasses and use contacts, but sometimes I enjoy wearing my glasses when I go out or am looking to see differently for a bit, because I can take them off and I naturally see everything with that blur filter :) get rid of the details in the world and just see blobs of moving color (I have very bad vision lol). I find it pretty relaxing and magical, especially around Christmas time with all the string lights and decorations ✨
Yes!! I totally agree! There are silver linings to having vision issues like this for sure. Interestingly enough many of my favorite Art Directors I've worked with through the years have lazy eyes or super thick glasses. Makes me wonder if they are able to see the world as 2d easier than with perfect vision and that gives them an advantage in creating art
I absolutely adore getting my vision checked around the holidays. The drops they put in to widen the pupils cause these gorgeous star shapes around all the street lamps and stoplights. :) I agree entirely that taking off my glasses will give me an entirely different view of the world, in just a moment. It’s magic! :)
Thanks, I needed to read this. That's the most positive thing I've ever heard in regards to having to have my newly acquired glasses.
It was also like a penny drop moment, you are so right. What I had thought was incredible artistic instinct in some of my creative friends may well boil down to their very thick glasses & their ability to see the world in this fuzzy, diffused way.
Amazing.
@@randomdm I'm sure it's a bit of both. Kids with poor vision/glasses are probably less comfortable running around outside all the time and therefore develop more indoor hobbies like reading/art/music. Or whatever a persons reasoning is for the behavior preferences they have. And the more time you spend indoors looking at close objects, the worse your vision will likely get (also genetics). I don't know if it's necessarily that we see in a way others don't, but that we've spent more conscious energy in the process of seeing and developing our other senses. So it's reciprocal, like most things. Near sightedness might have lead us to more near sighted skills, and then spending so much time doing those things made our nearsightedness worse. People on average have significantly worse vision today because of all our screens and nearsighted jobs.
I have been painting for many years and have had many workshop and class teachers. Your approach to creating images using light (as opposed to form) as the primary principle is extremely useful and unique in my experience. I have always taught my own students that painting is first and foremost about seeing, and that you need to paint what you see, not what you think. After a certain point you will have learned enough to make aesthetic decisions that deviate from that rule, but only when you have understood why you are doing it. Your videos are pure gold.
This is FANTASTIC information.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I haven't found anything else like this.
Please continue making videos!
Thank you for the kind words!! Keep creating!
I know many painting/drawing channels, but this here is the next level stuff. holy smokes
Where have you been all my life?! Thank you for this!
Ha! Thanks! I'm so glad you found this useful
I appreciate the filming setup with the dramatic, high contrast lighting! I was trying to analyze your face and the room using your tips while watching the video
Yay! An artist after my own heart... studying every image. I am constantly stopping movies to admire the light and color. So glad you're applying your art observation skills
Same! I knew someone else must have thought this too. I never see other CZcams videos with this type of lighting. It was perfect for the subject of the video and just a delight to watch.
Same, very provocative content, definitely had me looking intently at Jeremy's filming setup.
I don't think I could stress enough how much these lessons have taught me. As someone who is always trying to develop their skills, it's tough to find your kind of in-depth guidance.
Wow, I'm so very glad you found this helpful! It's nice to meet you Seb
I cannot tell you what a 'treasure'' you are in sharing your knowledge Jeremy, I am soaking up your tuition and loving it!~
This channel is something special
Aw thanks!
I've been looking for this, thankyou so much
Yay! So glad you found it helpful
The best teacher thanks
awww, thank you!
I love how you verbalize it so well! It's something that I also had an "aha" moment with years ago. When you look at a white wall it never really is white. There are multiple different shades, colors and values in there. It never occurred to me that this is also directly transferable to studying light and objects. I'll definitely try to unsee lines in my next work. Thanks so much!
I cannot express how THRILLED I am to have come across your channel!!! You’re (obviously) an incredible artist-but the way you teach is so different that anything I’ve personally come across, and your insights are invaluable in my opinion. You also make me excited to just DRAW! Being ADHD I can fall into the perfectionist trap, which can lead to frustration and multiple unfinished projects of all types-so this entire idea is REALLY awesome for me.
I really can’t find the right words to express how helpful/inspiring/encouraging/creative-mind inducing that this video-along with your other videos-truly are…more so than any online courses or videos I’ve taken or watched!
Thank you for offering us a little chunk of your magically genius brain!
Wow... I'm floored. What amazing feedback and kind words! Thank you! I'm delighted that you find my ponderings useful :) Keep creating! Comments like these are so highly motivating for me to keep making more. Thank you!!
Yo, i got ADD and feeling the same and also have a major problem with perfectionism so its really hard for me to get past the sketching fase because i hate doing the line art before coloring. These video's give me hope again for my future drawings on digital.
@@TheChameleon2008 yesss, right?! I feel the exact same way
Ditto for me, what a find! You are doing the right thing, being a perfectionist. Not many people are willing to spend the time necessary to produce great work. I have many photographer friends who either don't post process at all or they do very little. But they have many thousands of pictures. I have far fewer but I feel it's better to have a gallery worthy pics even if I don't have all that many.
This channel is GOLD. I just subscribed. Thank you so much for sharing this🙏
Thank you so much!!!
Thank you, I’ve had difficulty going from detailed real drawings with shadows to color. Best explanation I’ve come across, you ROCK
Thanks Pamla! I'm so glad you found this helpful
Thank you for your channel and topics. I am a painter not a graphic artist but the skills you teach cross genres and have given me new tools to level up in a way that standard painting tutorials never could!
jeremy, a month ago i watched your first video about colors and I challenged myself to do color studies for 30 days. i just finished it today and I just want to say, you helped me a lot through those 30 days more than the previous years I studied art in school. incredibly. you helped me get through my long year of art block. so thank you so much. I'm still slowly learning once more through your channel, this time I'll be challenging myself again in what you've taught in this video. so I just wanna reach out and say thank you so much. i cannot thank you enough. thank you, thank you.
Wow, that is so amazing! It's artists like yourself that are going to go far since you're putting in the work that is going to help you grow quickly!! It's so nice to meet you Ayna. Please do stay in touch as you keep at it. I have some new videos coming soon that will be the next steps to grow that I hope you find helpful. I also am going to start doing mentorships in 2023 if that's something you might be interested in.
Thank you! I love listening to you talk the love of creating! You give me joy and a desire to get back to my many unfinished canvasses.
As an art student who has prior knowledge of color and light, you really helped me get to know and familiarize myself into new concepts relating color and light, thank you very much.
Yay! Thanks for letting me know and I'm so glad you found this helpful
I am at the half of the video and you told me perfectly what I'm feeling all the time when I'm struggling: it's the unseeing of details and the feeling and colours and light! Thank you! Such an important fact about painting.
I'm so very glad you found this relatable LiMarie. I hope it helps with your art
THIS IS FOR FREE?! I have been blessed
aw thanks!! :) So glad you found it useful
I'm a professional artist, but I loved this video. Trying to "produce" art, we forget the fundamentals of seeing value and light. Thanks for the reminder. Just yesterday, I marveled at the light through a tangerine. I look forward to more of your content.
Fantastic. Just binged all the videos and can't wait for more!
Thanks Jennifer!! :)
i am so thankful for your thoughtfulness in this art talk. incredible video. thank you.
You're most welcome! Thanks for the kind words
Been a painting of traditional paint (oil and gouache) and decided it's time to get into some digital art. You go over many things my teachers spoke of, but I find there aspects of these ideas that are slightly different than traditional painting.
Most of all, it's the "how to see light" that's doing me the most good.
Thank you.
I’m not gonna lie this channel is a treasure for the people who can’t afford for any art art school or online courses
I'm so glad you're finding this helpful!! Yes, art school is very very expensive indeed
Can't agree more. I learned this last year when I struggle to do linework and it was a paradigm shift for me. Try not to find an outline or a shortcut, but draw the thing as it is, as it is perceived in your eyes. If you want an outline, add it after the drawing is done.
Precisely! I'm so glad you enjoyed this :) Keep creating!
Wow, that intro almost gave me the chills. It's like poetry mixed with teaching. Thanks man.
WOW !!! You are totally ultimately enlightened from within ! Proof of it that you share your inner light with us ! Cheers m8 +++ May a light be with you forever !!!
This is a fantastic video, thank you so much
Aw thanks Nicole!
Hey Jeremy I just found your videos man. These are an astounding resource. You are such a great teacher and you visuals used to teach a Lee so great. I am very very impressed. So how do you view directly light. Is that just part of the primary speciar
Thanks Joe! I'm so glad it was helpful. When I create the next few videos hopefully I answer your questions about how to see direct light. It takes practice for sure to get your brain to see each element separately.
I am an amateur nature photographer and I must say your videos are real gems to nature and wildlife photographers who are resisting the current obsession with details, sharpening, nailing the shot and noise-free images. Thanks to you, I am beginning to understand and admire the complexities of light and how that knowledge can help me work on my post processing and how to approach negative space. Thank you so much!
This one is encouraging too, the fact the you start out in large scale and then refine more and more is how I Photoshop images - I do global things first, then after a while I spend more time dealing with more and more specific areas. I take a lot of time making sure I have textures right (which could involve accentuating actual light to be brighter or less bright, more saturation or less or changing color, some is for sharpening or blurring, etc. But in the end I do what looks good to me. I have spent as much as 10 days on a single picture, but usually one to two days are the norm. The more important a picture is to me, the more time I'm willing to spend. My record holder is of a super gifted and very kind celebrity who passed away suddenly. Everybody has heard of this person. I'd rather not say who. Anyway, I've said enough. Thanks for this excellent video. I'm still learning!
I'm so glad you found this helpful and I'm glad you see the advantage of the same process in your own artwork. Keep creating my new friend!!
I take pictures and I have always wondered why "photography" means "writing with light." I stumbled upon the works of an impressionist painter, Claude Monet, where he constantly paint similar subjects in different times of the day. I tried to do it as well but in photography. The more I practice it, the more I see how light hits the surfaces of the subjects, how light creates shadows behind a subject, how light makes the colors of subjects more vibrant, etc.
You have explained this beautifully. I have watched a lot of art-related videos on CZcams and yours are one of the few ones that provide honest yet encouraging advice to people who want to try and excel in art. You earned a sub!!!
Thank you Angel! I'm delighted you found this useful. Keep making awesomeness!!!
My goodness I am so glad I found your channel. These videos and the ways of thinking you pass on are so good.
Your channel has been blowing my mind for the past 24 hours. I am looking at the world completely differently. I can't tell you how MUCH I appreciate you sharing what you know with us. So, a profound: thank you.
I am so happy I didn't unsee this video. Absolutely fascinating. Truly inspirational thoughts from a very talented man. THANK YOU! dg
This is incredibly profound. This captures elegantly why art is so fundamental to our humanity.
And it hints at the complicated math that exists behind some of the things we see in art but doesn't explicitly state it making it accessible.
And I love the mindset change.
Yay! I'm so happy you see it this way too!!
Everything you have said & done with this CZcams clip is masterful. Its mind boggling how much learning has been done in my yrs & although many teachers touch on light & colour blocking, I have never seen one break down the elements to an image quite like you have just done. Simple, thoughtful, provocative & eloquently delivered, highly valuable content. Many thanks Jeremy
Thank you so much again! I'm so glad you enjoyed this
The 6 years ive been a lighting artist i have followed your advices on light and color
I'm honored Leon! So glad my random ponderings have been helpful
@@LightingMentor it has been a struggle still after working as an Light apprentice on Encanto i am working on improving in a big way and go back to the basics to fully full understand... i think i still tend to see things as object.
Excellent and so helpful! Thanks for this content and I hope you keep developing!
Love this, wow I learned so much from watching his videos, I just happened to see this and clicked on it.
I found Right tutor in right time. Amazingly simplified tutorial. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you! I'm glad you like it
Dude you deserve waaaaaaaaaaaay way way more subs. Thank you for bringing your experience and study to the rest of the world!
just found your video while searching for paining tutorial. I have been struggling with light and colours. Your approach of unseeing shapes and seeing colour has blown my mind. Love from Bangladesh. I'll definitely follow your videos to learn more. Hope you keep creating videos every month. (though I know creating such videos needs so much preparations)
Thank you for the kind words and encouragement!! I'm so glad you found this useful. Keep creating!!
This is so cool Jeremy, it took me back when we worked together and your comments and advices were always super helpfull!
Thank you for explaining the important things so simply!
Hey Chloe!! SO nice to hear from you. Miss you my friend. I'm so glad you liked the video
I still think about the course you gave us about light 12 or 13 years ago. You still aaze me with the way you are able to catch, understand and reproduce the light and it's boucing in your drawings. This is a nice channel, I hope you'll get what you want from it ! Cheers from France ;-)
Wow, so much time has passed. It's nice to hear from you Olivier. I'm so glad like the channel
Your descriptions reminded me so much of JMW Turner paintings. He was the diffused and atmospheric light specialist! Would love to see you do a walk through on some of his work. Thanks!!
Had a weird moment this morning while driving to work... It was raining and cars were driving with their lights on. The reflections on the road were kind of bending toward me, not going straight down the road like I expected them to. Is it just me or has anyone else seen this? Perhaps I am just going mad! Your explanations of light and how it works are invaluable and I thought that if anyone would have seen this in life, you would!
I just found your channel and feel blessed already. Thank you for being willing to let others learn from your vast knowledge base and for explaining in a way that is so understandable and inspiring!
You are most welcome my friend! Keep creating!
Just recently discovered your videos and my painting skills have already jumped leaps and bounds! Also, your favorite digital brushes are now my favorite, too. THANK YOU!! 🎨
Wow! You are honestly , hands down one of THE best teachers on CZcams. PLEASE make more videos I beg of you
Wow, thank you!!! That is a very high complement! I'm so glad you found these useful. I have so many more topics to share and am working on new videos. Sorry for the gaps in time, my day job keeps me incredibly busy and I've been away for the past 5 weeks shooting a tv show. Now that I'm home I hope I can make a schedule to get videos out more regularly. Thanks again for the very kind words and encouragement
Sometimes I feel lucky to see this type of gem content which is not viewed by large number of people, but at the same time I feel like it should have even more audience. But the fact is this type of gem content is a reward who was searching for it.
I'm so glad you found my channel too! Keep creating!
Hello Jeremy. It's me Jeremy too. Lol I'm in Alaska and you are right about light. We have so much light in the summer and then lots of grays and white in the winter.
I have been photographing the same location for over a whole year and things change out there. The same spot can transform just like that. And the closer I get to the ground the more there is to see in a tiny spot of the forest.
I am not very good at painting yet but I do have many mediums that I have yet to work with intentionally.
I love your channel. NOONE has spoken as you have in such a simple explanation of lighting.
I can't wait to look at your portfolio
Great video. And a powerful message for the learning artist.
I am so glad I’ve discovered your videos! Thank you for your easy to understand explanations.
Incredible.. this kind of knowledge is worth its weight in gold. Thank you so much for providing your insight and expertise for free on CZcams.
You're most welcome!!
you explained this in such a simple way! thank you, i've been struggling with color and light for ages and i finally know how to change that
Yay! I'm so glad this helped inspire some new ways to thing about color. Keep creating!!
Wow great information, I am superhappy I found your channel. Looking forward to the indepth followup videos as well 👍👍👍
I'm so glad that your channel exists, thanks a lot for giving us free high quality courses like this. I was struggling a lot figure out how to use color palette in my illustrations, even the simplest one, it's either too bland or too strong. I watched some of videos from other people but it doesn't really help a lot. it's probably because the explanation is too complex or too general (not going in depth) for me. But, your videos are on another level. It's so easy to understand and apply. I only watched 2 videos of yours and finally can solve my problem handling color palette. Thanks a lot :)
Your channel is the guide for my coloring. ❤❤❤❤❤
Now, I know the reason why I stopped painting. I never learnt to draw with lines and shapes. I started painting because I loved colors and I loved the fact that many colors which are not visible to the naked eye contributes in making a picture or a scenery beautiful. In the last few years, I was trying to do art like everyone else, using lines and shapes, although they are useful, that's not my style of art. I was lost for so long trying to figure out what's stopping me from my painting. This is just one of the reasons though. I feel like I am in an art class when I watch your videos. Thank you so much, I learnt a lot from your videos.
I'm so glad this was helpful JP! I hope you keep creating and it sparks great joy in you
Thank you so much for making this video. I am legally blind. I have been an artist all my life and I started losing my eyesight 10 years ago. My mom told me to keep creating art no matter what. So I pressed on . For years I was a black and white pencil artist. I focused a lot on line work and shading but now I can't really see the lines. I see color and not details. The way I see is like a flat water color painting with very little lines. I just started working with clay and painting on my clay pots but lately I have not been very happy with my paintings. It's like every day is a constant reminder that I can't see. I was really down until I started looking at your videos. I realized that I can still see colors. After listening to you I learned that I should focus on colors first then add in some details last. 😂 This is a total shift in my thinking. It is hard for me to let go of lines because that has been my focus all my life but I am going to go back to the basics and build my way back up. Just like you showed me. I am so happy right now and I can't wait to get started with my paintings. Thank you so much for this. You made me love art again.
Amazing, great work, please continue making these videos, very informative and helpful.
It seems so obvious that light is what we take in, but the way you described the transistion from looking at purely the details to temporarily shutting that out and focusing on the way the light reveals the detail through colour is simply beautiful. Love this video, Jeremy! I'm so glad I found your channel, you're awesome!
Being aware..is the reason we are born ....very simple ..only that. Everything alive has degree of consciousness and the difference is only that degree. This is one of the best lesson on art I ever heard ...but at same time talks about the degree of consciousness of the author ...old the best Jeremy.
You’re gonna blow past that 1K subs mark today, methinks. Your videos are straightforward, helpful and thorough 👌👌
Thank you! I'm truly honored
There is a story I‘ve read about Leonardo DaVinci that sticked to me: He started every painting by kneeing in front of it. Making him smaller. This metapher is resonating by your idea of unseeing what we have learned. Thank you!
Oh cool! I've not heard that story before, but I like it indeed
Thank you so so much for this I recently found your channel and your explanations and the way you see things are constant light bulb moments. Thank you 🙏🏼
your channel has absolutely changed the way i approach my practice and my art - thank you so much for uploading, I keep returning to your videos over and over and it feels like everytime I learn something new :)
This is very profound.
I'm absolutely loving these videos. I've been looking for an explanation for how those beautiful lighting effects can be visualised in a painting and finally found it in your videos! I'm going to share this with people whom I know will appreciate these as much as I do. Thanks Jeremy!
Aw thank you Sanjay!!!
Oh my gosh! I am loving your videos! You are doing such a good job. For the last 2 years I homeschooled my daughter and one of our favorite studies was Pixar in a Box on Kahn Academy. These videos are the next level of creative learning! I am so excited to share them with her. Please keep them coming!!!!
Thank you again friend!!
Yes, understanding light is so important! Best videos on art fundamentals I've seen online. Such valuable lessons. Great work, Jeremy!
This will change the way I see things pretty profoundly. Thank you!
You're most welcome Jim
Interesting and true 👍. You are so right ✅
Those are best learning videos I've ever had! Thank You, I was lucky that YT brought me here :)
So glad to have discovered your channel! Your videos are exactly what I needed at this point in my art journey. Thank you!
You are amazing! Thanks so much for sharing
Thanks a million Jeremy! I am so happy that I found your channel. Your videos are incredible! I am definitely going to check out your website.
I came back 5 minutes after watching the video just to hit a like and to thank you for the quality of your videos... It's great work you're doing here... Learned a lot of things from you 🙏🙏🙏
Aww thank you friend!!!!
I've watched a couple of your videos now, and I gotta say... even as a novice, I can tell how valuable the topics you touch on are, and am awed by your ability to make them not only understandable but also immediately practicable - I'll definitely keep my eyes out for more of these videos!
This videos are the most helpful tool I had in a long time ! Thank you
THANK U FOR SHARING UR KNOWLEDGE!
Your videos are so inspiring. Much deeper concepts here then just how to videos. Lovely. ❤
I recently find your channel and I've seen all your videos, pretty sure I just find a gold mine here... Thanks man, I really appreciate your content, please keep teaching us
Wow, thank you!!! I'm so glad you found them helpful. Comments like these make it all worth it
Love your videos. I've been needing something like this. I've recently started learning color and been finding it very frustrating. After watching your videos I decided to paint just a simple apple and it turned out so good and I learned so much! Now I'm doing simple paint sketches and I feel I'm actually starting to understand what I'm doing. Just want to say thank you for being on here and sharing your wisdom. I've found it super helpful.
Wow. Just. Wow. I thought I knew these things but now I get it. Thank you for explaining them in a way I can understand. I’m looking forward to more videos.
Yay! I'm so glad the explanation helped. :) Thanks for letting me know and I'll do my best to keep more videos coming
Hello!
I really enjoyed and learned a lot from you videos, so I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to make them! They truly are inspiring, enough for me ( a stubborn lil teen) to start digital painting!
So from the bottom of my heart, thanks.
You are so very welcome Cristal! Keep creating!!
Thank You soo much for making and sharing Your excellent videos. It's channels like Your's , where knowledgeable people generously spend their time and effort to share their knowledge that give CZcams it's value.
Best regards.
I'm so glad you liked it! Keep creating
Great great great
Wow ! Thank you I just Subscribed! As an illustrator I have always been in awe of animation and the ability of the animators who can create other worldly images that are so convincing and far beyond what we see in life. Truly amazing abilities and talent! 🇨🇦
Thank you Jan! I'm so glad you liked this. Thanks for subscribing
This is so eye-opening!! Thank you😊